Shōnen Jump+

Shōnen Jump+
is a Japanese online magazine for manga created by Shueisha, spin-off from its Jump line of magazines. Launched on September 22, 2014, the magazine operates as a free mobile app and website. The magazine serializes original titles and titles from other Shueisha manga magazines, and also carries digital editions of Weekly Shōnen Jump. Notable titles serialized in Shōnen Jump+ include Fire Punch, World's End Harem, Astra Lost in Space, Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku, Spy × Family, Kaiju No. 8 and Dandadan.
Outside of Japan, Shueisha releases the original manga from the platform on Manga Plus. Starting in 2023, every new manga series except for licensed manga and Indies series launched on Shōnen Jump+ receives a simultaneous English release on Manga Plus.
History
Pre-launch
Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump reached a peak weekly circulation of 6.53 million copies in the 1990s, though its readership has since steadily declined as a result of the broader decline of the print media industry. In response, Shueisha turned towards digital distribution in an attempt to reach out to a wider audience.
A free digital edition of Weekly Shōnen Jump was issued as a result of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, after shipping and distribution lines were affected by the disaster. Issuing the digital magazine was difficult at that time because of different work flows from issuing printed version. In 2012, Shueisha launched the online bookstore app Jump Book Store, which enjoyed mild commercial success and became an inspiration for Shōnen Jump+.
In 2013, Shueisha launched the online manga platform Jump LIVE. Although the app was downloaded over 1 million times in three weeks, the editorial department found it contained too much content and it was difficult to distinguish between free and paid content. Shueisha would ultimately discontinue the platform. Nevertheless, the experience of launching an online platform helped the company for the coming Shōnen Jump+.
Post-launch
Shōnen Jump+ was launched on September 22, 2014, with more than 30 manga series, some of which were transferred from Jump LIVE, including ēlDLIVE and Nekoda-biyori. The digital version of Weekly Shōnen Jump can be purchased in Shōnen Jump+ at 300 yen per issue or 900 yen per month. Despite its title, Shōnen Jump+ also features series targeted towards female readers in addition to its namesake shōnen manga, which is targeted towards young teen males.
Compared to Weekly Shōnen Jump, titles published in Shōnen Jump+ are subject to laxer editorial restrictions around explicit content. According to Shuhei Hosono, the chief editor of Shōnen Jump+, the number of weekly active users increased from 1.1 million to 1.3 million between April and May 2016; Hosono noted that the increase was catalyzed by the release of Fire Punch and World's End Harem, which both contain depictions of sex and violence not permitted in Weekly Shōnen Jump. Starting from 2017, Weekly Shōnen Jump began serializing works made by manga artists who previously published their series on Shōnen Jump+, such as Taishi Tsutsui's We Never Learn, Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man, and Tsurun Hatomune's Mitama Security: Spirit Busters.
In 2019, the platform experienced significant progress. Spy × Family, which was a new series in 2019, attracted many users to the app, especially female users. After it began serialization, the proportion of female users increased by 5% while 60%-65% were male. Astra Lost in Space received an anime adaptation and Eren the Southpaw received a TV drama adaptation in 2019; both are original titles of Shōnen Jump+. Moreover, its original titles started to win big awards. Astra Lost in Space won the 12th Manga Taishō Award, becoming the first web comic to do so.
Manga Plus, a global version of Shōnen Jump+, was launched on January 28, 2019. An international edition of Shōnen Jump+ was first proposed in 2017 as a means to appeal to non-Japanese audiences; the app is offered in English and Spanish. Also in 2019, Shueisha produced Marvel × Shōnen Jump+ Super Collaboration, a collaboration series with Marvel Comics composed of seven one-shots written by various Weekly Shōnen Jump artists including Yu-Gi-Oh!s Kazuki Takahashi. In December 2020, Deadpool: Samurai started serialization on the same platform after the one-shot in October 2019.
In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some titles in Shōnen Jump+ have been published on a modified schedule. A website namely "Jump Digital Labo" (ジャンプ・デジタルラボ) was launched by the editorial department of Shōnen Jump+ in July 2020, for recruiting proposals of digital development. Kaiju No. 8, which has been serialized since July 2020, has gained 30 million page views in October 2020, becoming the fastest Shōnen Jump+ manga to do so.
On December 14, 2020, it was announced that the second part of Chainsaw Man, the first part of which had previously been serialized on Weekly Shōnen Jump, will be serialized on Shōnen Jump+.
In 2023, every new manga series not including Indies series and licensed series launched on Shōnen Jump+ would begin to receive a simultaneous English release on Manga Plus.
Metrics
By May 2019, over 60 titles were serialized on Shōnen Jump+. The app had been downloaded 10 million times; combined, the app and website had 2.5 million weekly active users. Shōnen Jump+ accumulated over 12 billion yen in sales revenue. As of February 2022, the app had been downloaded 19 million times, with the app and website having approximately 4.6 million weekly active users. Shueisha estimated Shōnen Jump+s users to be 65% male, and that 18 to 24 year olds were its largest age demographic at 32%.
Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku was the most popular series on the platform in 2018, while Spy × Family has been the most popular Shōnen Jump+ title since 2019. Spy × Family is noted for attracting readers, especially female, to the app, according to Hosono, the trend of its sales are comparable to Assassination Classroom, a high-profile title published in Weekly Shōnen Jump.
Censorship
Due to explicit content, World's End Harem and Saotome Shimai wa Manga no Tame nara!? cannot be accessed via its iOS app, but is available on its website and Android app.
Current series
Finished series
100-nichi Go ni XXX suru Onna Shachō to Shinyū Shain
5-byou Douwa
Abyss Rage
Accel Star
Active Raid - Kidou Kyoushuushitsu Daihachigakari (manga adaptation)
Aejuma-sama no Gakkou
Aharen-san wa Hakarenai
Akuma no Memumemu-chan
Ana no Mujina
Ano Musume wa Yariman
Anten-sama no Haranouchi
Arata Primal: The New Primitive
Astra Lost in Space
Aurora Node
Ayakashi Triangle
Baby Blooper
Bakumatsu Tobaku Barbaroi
Bara to Buta
The Birds of Death
Black Clover Gaiden: Quartet Knights
Blue Flag
Boku no Seifuku
Bokutachi Hoikuka Koukou 1-nensei
Borderless Name
Boys Over Flowers Season 2
Bubble (manga adaptation)
Bye Bye Jinrui
Camelia Curtain
Cheer Danshi!! Go Breakers
Chronos Ruler
Chikyuu Ningen Terra-chan
Comics: Mancolo
Curtain's up, I'm off
Daisaiyuuki Bokuhi Seiden
Dare ga Kenja wo Koroshita ka?
Darling in the Franxx (manga adaptation)
Deadpool: Samurai
Dear Sa-chan
Destroy Everything
Don't Blush, Sekime-san!
Dorei no Watashi-shi Mofumofu Shujin ga Toutokute Kyō mo Buji Shibō
Dorei Yuugi
Dorei Yuugi Guren
Dragon Ball: That Time I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha!
The Dragon Child
Dricam!!
East, Into The Night
ēlDLIVE
Emperor to Issho
Eren the Southpaw
Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me!
EXP:0
Fire Punch
Fuji no Yamai wa Fushi no Yamai
Full Charge!! Kaden-chan
Shokugeki no Sōma - L'étoile
Gaming Ojōsama
Ghostbuster Osamu
Giri no Otōto ni Korosareru
Gunjō ni Siren
Hachuurui-chan wa Natsukanai
Hana Nochi Hare - Hanadan Next Season
Handsome Must Die
Hara Hara Sensei
Heart's Program
Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku
Hello World (manga adaptation)
Jigokuraku ~Saikyō no Nukenin Gaman no Gabimaru~
Henshuu-sha ☆ Momii no Dai Bouken
Himitsu no Kajitsu
Hina Change
High-Risk Mission Therapy
holoX MEETing
Honnori! Don Patch
How to Make Delicious Coffee
Hyperinflation
I Sold My Life for Ten Thousand Yen Per Year (manga adaptation)
Iroha ni Hotoke!
iShoujo+
Itomo tayasuku Okonawareru Juusan-sai ga Ikiru Tame no Oshigoto
Jingi Naki Yoshida-ke
Juni Taisen: Zodiac War (manga adaptation)
Kami no Manimani
Kami-sama, Ki-sama o Koroshitai.
Karada Sagashi
Karada Sagashi Different
Karada Sagashi Kai
Keppare Matsubara-san!
Killer Friends
Killer Heaven
Kiss x Death
Kimetsu no Aima!
Kimi ga Shinu Made Ato Hyaku Nichi
KoLD8: King of the Living Dead
Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible
Kuroko no Basket: Replace Plus
Land Lock
Leviathan
Let's! Haikyu!?
Magical Pâtissière Kosaki-chan!!
Majo no Kaigashuu
Makui no Rease
Manken ni Bishoujo
Manko☆Chishin - Baka demo Wakaru Koten Bungaku
The Maou-sama
Marvel × Shōnen Jump+ Super Collaboration
Me and My Gangster Neighbor
Moebana
Mofumofu
Monban Kaeru wa Shagamitai
Moon Land
Mone-san no Majimesugiru Tsukiaikata
Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation: Magical Genus Magic Tool Master Chapter
Mukashi wa Yokatta
Mutou to Satou
My Animal
My Hero Academia Smash!!
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes
Nano Hazard
Naruto: Konoha Shinden: Yukemuri Ninpōchō
Naruto: Sasuke Retsuden: Uchiha no Matsuei to Tenkyū no Hoshikuzu
Navirinth
Newton no Tsubomi
Ohisama Birdie
ONI: Road to be the Mightiest Oni Episode ZERO
Onsengai no Medusa
Oresuki (manga adaptation)
Oyakusoku no Neverland
Pochi Kuro
Psycho-Pass 3 (manga adaptation)
Psycho Pass 3: The First Inspector (manga adaptation)
Red List
Rengoku no Toshi
Rental 105
The Right Way to Make Jump!
Romantic Killer
Rough Diamond - Manga Gakkou e Youkoso
Route End
RWBY: The Official Manga
Saguri-chan Tankentai
Salad Viking
Saotome Shimai wa Manga no Tame nara
Satsuriku no Ōu
Seiyū Mashimashi Club
Senpai! Ore no Koe de Iyasa Renaide Kudasai!
The Serious Succubus Hiragi-san
Shōwa Otome Otogi Banashi
Shuukyoku Engage
Shinotori
Slime Life
Soloist in a Cage
Sōsei no Onmyōji: Tenen Jakko: Nishoku Kokkeiga
Spotless Love: This Love Cannot Be Any More Beautiful
SSSS.Gridman (manga adaptation)
Stan for Salvation
The Subject Shia
The Soul Spewing Wielder
Suito-to
Summer Time Rendering
Sushi Sister Hunter
Takopi's Original Sin
Tajū Jinkaku Kanojo
Tenjin
Teruteru Kensetsu (Kabu)
The Kajiki Chef: Divine Cuisine
The Magnificent Kotobuki (manga adaptation)
The Sign of Abyss
The Vertical World
Toge Toge
Tokedase! Mizore-chan
Tomogui Kyoushitsu
Tomohiro Hasegawa's Struggle With Digital Drawing -Episode Unreal Engine-
Tonari no Heya Kara Aegigoe ga Surunde Sukedo...
Tonkatsu DJ Agetarō
Touhou Momotarou, Zen Part Boshuu
Toumei Ningen no Hone
Tsugihagi Quest
Uchū no Tamago
Ultramarine Magmell (manga adaptation)
Vocchi-men
Wa no Kage
Wareware wa Uchuujin na no da!!
World's End Harem
World's End Harem: After World
World's End Harem: Britannia Lumiére
World's End Harem: Fantasia Academy (transferred from Ultra Jump)
World 4u_
Yagiza no Yuujin
Yukari-chan
Youkoso Bourei Sougiya-san
Yukari-chan
Yukimi Daifuku
Yumeochi: Dreaming of Falling For You
Yumizuka Iroha wa Tejun ga Daiji!
See also
Shonen Jump digital vault
References
External links
Official website
Shueisha magazines
Anime and manga websites
Internet properties established in 2014